The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-09
Pith and Point.

IT is proposed in Licking county, Ohio, to
abolish " licking" in the schools.
To grocers Now get out the nice, fresh
maple sugar you stored away last spring.
Washington Critic
A WOMAN at Wheatland, Mich, has pared
,450 bushels of apples this winter, besides
attending to her household work.
THE striker thinks he is hitting the corpo-
ration; but, in most cases, he is striking
a blow at his wife and children.
register
WHEN Horace Greeley uttered the advice,
eco West, young man. he probably did
not realize that coal would ever command
$50 ton there.
THE woman whose favorite hymn is 81
would not live Away" has spent $3.50 for
patent medicines during the past ten years.
NorriStO1Un Herdld
THE once popular Cardiff giant now re-
poses in Ell Paso, Texas, in an old box, and
none are so poor as to do him the reverence
of an admission ticket.
MORE than eight million umbrellas were
manufactured in this country last year. We
don't ask what has become of this vast num-
Der, but we would like to know where three
of them went to.
THE New York Christian Adrocate thinks
there are five hundred hypocrtes, impos-
tors and cranks, of one sex or the other, get
ting living as temperance lecturers, evan
gelists, etc, in the United States and
Canada"
"YEs," remarked Fogg, ct like dogs 1
have had dog for a great many years, and
never since ! first knew him has he asked me
if it was cold enough for me, nor talked for
hours about his family affairs. "-Boston
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BOSTON girl "Tell me- my friend. do you
admire HAWTHORNE" New York girl:
ooh, my! yes / think it is great! When
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glasses of it every morning before break
fastp'-Egchdnge.
THIS" says an esteemed contemporary,
"would be a good time for a congress of
nations to agree upon universal disarma-
ment." AS we are the tailless fox, suppose
we invite the other foxes to have their tails
cut off ?"- Washington Republican.
A YOUNG woman at Burslem England,
who has been married for only five months,
has applied for a judicial separation because
her husband will not cut his toe-nails, which
are of abnormal length, and she complains
that she is scared from head to foot by
them.
A FEW years ago a school-teacher at Cat
lin, ILL.,, named Dale whipped one of the
larger girls and was prosecuted by the girls
parents and fined. a good deal of sympa-
thy was expressed for the teacher, and in
the end the girl herself became one of his
champions. Now teacher and pupil are to
be married.
A VERY deaf Boston man has a charming
wife and cross dog. The other morning a
friend met him and said: Good morning,
Mr.. Blank. Your wife made very pleasant
call on us last evening" I'm very sorry"
was the startling answer of the deaf citizen.
"I'll that it doesn't occur again. I'm
going to chain her up after this. Mem York
san.
EXTRAORDINARY stories are told of the
profits of agriculture in southern California
An olive orchard of 5000 trees at Santa
Barbara is reported to yield 10000 bottles of
the finest oil yearly, worth 81 a bottle or
81 900 per acre. At Riverside a crop of
oranges on six acres of land has been sold
at $500 per acre, the buyer to take the fruit
| on the trees.
! THAT is a pathetic story of a negro who
! has Just been found in a mountain district
| of North Carolina who was ignorant that
| he was emancipated. Ever since the war
he had been working for hard master, get
| ting no pay and receiving much cruel treat
ment, believing all the time that he was a
slave. The case has a romantic aspect that
might attract novelist.
GERMAN professors are proverbially alb
sent-mnded, but none of them more so than
Professor Dusel of Bonn. He noticed one
day his wife placing large bouquet on his
desk. "What does this mean" he asked
"Why, this is the anniversary of your mar
rage" replied Mrs. Dusel. Zach, is that
so? Well, let me know when yours comes
around and I'll reciprocate,'
TWENTY-FIVE years ago very valuable
work disappeared from the royal library at
Berlin and every year there has been a
search for it. Among the most eager in the
hunt was DR.. s., who died recently. Since
| then it has been discovered that the chair
! the doctor occupied was not high enough
for him, so he had used the volume to give
| him additional elevation. He made it his
! seat of learning, so to speak.
IT was reported by telegraph the other
day that Mr.. Parkes, farmer at Kingston,
in Kentucky, had succeeded in training
seven large monkeys or apes to work in his
hemp fields, and to break and prepare the
| hemp for market. Mr. Parkes, according to
the dispatch, has found that they do the
work more rapidly and better than the
negroes, and at one-quarter the cost. The
apes. it is said, We're sent to him by brother
in Africa, who had seen them put to similar
uses there and Mr.. Parkes is so well sat
istied with the results of his experiment
that he has ordered ten more of the animals.
"THE story printed in the morning papers
| to the effect that monkeys had supplanted
negro labor on southern mans farm, said
| a Clark street Snowman yesterday, " is
nothing strange. Two years ago we taught
Robinson CrusOe a big mandrll from south
Africa, to comb his hair with a comb, and
later on he became so proficient in the
| tonsoria art that he did the barbering for
the whole cage. He would sit a big monkey
on his launches and groom him carefully
as man brushes his beaver tile. This
done, he would stick one of his feet in box
of grease and apply the stuff to the whiskers
of his victim, and then wax both ends until
they stood out like tooth-picks - Chicago
Paper.
A WOMAN came into the Gardiner Savings
Bank, recently, having on her arm a basket
from which she took 1920 in silver coins.
They We're bright, sharp-edged quarters,
halves and dollars, which evidently had
seen but little use. The treasurer was sur
prised on looking at the dates, which the
odd appearance of some of the coins
prompted him to do. They went back to
1898 and included samples of almost every
coinage from that date up to 1887. The
woman said that her grandfather had
boarded the money since the beginning of
the century. He never would invest any of
his cash, fearing to trust banks or bonds. A
short time ago he died, and the silver was
distributed among his heirs. She received
one-sixth of it. If he had put the money at
interest from the time when he began to
save it he would have left to each of his
heirs enough to buy farm.-LeWiSton (Ne0
Journal.
On recent trip through Tasmania, writes
pened to visit the graveyard at Launceston,
and among the various epitaphs discovered
the following on slate-stone slab:
Beneath this rustic pile of stones
Lie the remains of Mary Jones'
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